BandMember wrote: » In an effort to veer away from the current row, I'll resurrect another one! I hope that you are in a major urban city, because culchies or anyone outside Dublin have no rights getting those speeds!! Now. Where did I leave my popcorn? :P
Gwynston wrote: » Keep up! - 2 weeks and 10 pages ago:http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=101839814&postcount=2443
Gonzo wrote: » the rollout did appear to be going very slowly and falling massively behind schedule up to November, however it does appear that they have finally got the ball rolling much quicker this month. Every time I take a journey I see a KN van somewhere. On Saturday afternoon I saw them working away near Trim. Today on the way to Navan I saw them working at the Tara exchange area pulling yellow cable and saw them again on my way into Navan, working in horrible conditions. I think we might be pleasantly surprised around February and March when many more exchanges currently being worked on will become live and number of premises passed will increase steadily.
PaulieBeef wrote: » There was a KN van (with a working on behalf of Eir sign) on the Castlebar Road outside Westport yesterday. The van was parked at the cabinet at the top of the Lodge Road with a reel of orange cable, and there was a group of lads working at a manhole about 150 metres up the road. I take it this means they're probably running the fibre out that direction? I was also on to Eir yesterday and the customer service rep said I should hopefully get fibre by February. Here's hoping!
damienirel wrote: » whatever about the rollout being completed - I agree with the 2nd part of your statement - "people here will still be arguing about the numbers, speed, facts etc" kinda what the forum is for I would have thought??;)
Johnboy1951 wrote: » Here ye go
BandMember wrote: » The rollout will be completed and some people here will still be arguing about the numbers, speed, facts etc. :rolleyes:
superloopy wrote: » Let's not start this again.
superloopy wrote: » Let's not start this again. Some people work for Eir and some people work with facts. Can we just leave it there?
Johnboy1951 wrote: » .... and some of us have an equally opposite viewpoint at this time.
damienirel wrote: » Hopefully it does - they are "incredibly far behind" considering they are to have all blue lines finished by end of 2018. - Which I call bull**** on bigtime.
Grumpypants wrote: » The telling thing is, none of the guys working near me are KN or Eir. They seem to have brought in a few additional companies. Hopefully this points to their desire to speed things up and hit their dates, and not that they are incredibly far behind.
Gonzo wrote: » this section is in Ratoath and doesn't appear to be started yet, it starts on the R125 in Ratoath and crosses a field to get to rural houses. I'm guessing it would be a new run and would probably have to be just slightly under the surface of the field, they will probably resow the grass over it when finished. There are probably more examples of areas like this in other parts of the blue line rural rollout. This method will definitely come into play more when doing some of the one off's in the NBP.
9726_9726 wrote: » Grass seeds?! Impressive. So when they are going across fields, are these new runs or existing copper runs? Aerial or underground?
Gonzo wrote: » yeah, I wasn't expecting it to be that tidy, the wires are almost hidden from view, very tidy job indeed. Also the ducting work has been very tidy as well, even across the outside of peoples drives and gardens has been very clean. Any upturned soil had grass seeds sprayed on when finished. Also when they start working on the Ratoath exchange there is one or two cases where they will send a blue line through fields, taking a shortcut in order to get to some houses. A few months ago I thought that had to be wrong, but now I realize it has to be correct as this is a very similar approach to what B4RN do in north England.
Gonzo wrote: » that all sounds like the prep work that was in my area since April. You may have a few months wait for the wiring etc to get done at the prep work is often done in stages especially if there is much ducting involved. Hopefully now in 2017 the wait between prep work and the wiring won't be as long as the waits during 2016, now that they are making much faster progress.
ED E wrote: » Jeese rob, would you ever form cohesive sentences/use grammar. The posts in the Dumb/Great Facebook thread are easier to parse.
